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Jamie Leigh

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+1 415 693 2190
jleigh@cooley.com

Jamie Leigh is a member of Cooley's business department leadership team and co-chair of the firm's M&A group. Her representative tech clients include Uber, Tableau, Zoom, Twilio, Fastly, SunRun, Workday, Dropbox, Automattic, Levi Strauss & Co., Procore, Ellie Mae, Opendoor, Looker and MINDBODY. Representative life sciences clients include Medivation, Five Prime Therapeutics, Kite Pharma, Portola Pharmaceuticals, Principia Pharma, Forty Seven, Abaxis and Dova Pharmaceuticals. Representative investment banking clients include Qatalyst Partners and Morgan Stanley.

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Experience

  • Zoom to Acquire Five9 for $14.7 Billion 

  • Tableau Enters Agreement to Sell to Salesforce for $15.7 Billion 

  • SPAC BowX Agrees to Merger With WeWork 

  • Uber to Acquire Drizly for $1.1 Billion 

  • Twilio Agrees to Acquire Segment for $3.2 Billion 

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Practices & Industries
Passions

    Seahawks football

    Flat water paddle boarding

Education

  • University of Virginia School of Law
    JD, 2002

  • University of Virginia
    BA, 1998

Admissions & Credentials

California

New York

Media & Insight
Memberships

  • Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy - Advisory Board

  • American Bar Association

Rankings & Accolades

    Chambers: Corporate/M&A (2021)

    The Deal: Dealmaker of the Year Finalist (2019)

    The Deal: Women in M&A – The Powerhouse 20

    The Recorder: Trusted Adviser 

    The Recorder: Women Leaders in Tech Law 

    Legal 500 US 2016-2021 Editions: M&A/corporate and commercial – M&A: middle-market 

    National Law Journal: M&A/Antitrust Trailblazer

The Deal Podcast

Jamie discusses her career path, advising tech and life sciences companies, her work for MIRROR on its agreement to sell to Lululemon and more

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contact

+1 415 693 2190 office
+1 415 693 2222 fax
jleigh@cooley.com

3 Embarcadero Center
20th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111-4004